CRAB — Computerized Reading-related Assessment Battery

Platform: Unity · French, Italian · verified today

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Description

The CRAB (Computerized Reading-related Assessment Battery) is a suite of nine short tasks that together profile the cognitive skills underpinning reading acquisition in children. The battery spans selective visual attention (Barrage), visuospatial working memory (Corsi Block-Tapping), sustained attention and multiple-object tracking (Multiple Object Tracking), phonological awareness (Rhyme Recognition, Phoneme Deletion), receptive/expressive vocabulary (Vocabulary), visual orthographic processing (Visual Orthography), and oral reading (Decoding, Text Reading). Each task is listed as a module below and can be run and downloaded on its own page; the battery is intended to be administered as a coherent set. Decoding, Phoneme Deletion, and Text Reading are spoken-response tasks scored via automatic speech recognition; Text Reading in particular is flagged as an abandoned/experimental feature in the source project and is less polished than the rest of the battery. Developed at the Brain and Learning Lab (University of Geneva).

Contact & Lab

Lab

Brain and Learning Lab

unige.ch

Principal investigator

Daphné Bavelier

University of Geneva

Task contact

Angela.Pasqualotto@unige.ch

Contributors

Angela Pasqualotto

University of Geneva

Conceptualization

Hugo Farajallah

University of Geneva

Software

Zeno Menestrina

University of Geneva

Software

Citation

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Credits

Developed at the Brain and Learning Lab (University of Geneva) under Angela Pasqualotto (task conception) and Zeno Menestrina (software developer) as part of the CRAB (Computerized Reading-related Assessment Battery) project. Software updated by Hugo Farajallah and Zeno Menestrina (2025). Adapted from Unity to HTML/JS by Hugo Farajallah in 2026. Each module carries its own task-specific citations on its page.

Domains

Attention

Auditory Processing

Learning

Psycholinguistics

Spatial Processing & Memory

Visual Processing & Memory

Working Memory

Part of suite:

CRAB

Target Population

Age Categories

primary

Clinical Status

non-clinical

Additional Notes

Children learning to read

Languages

French

Italian

Run under

Engine

Unity

Operating system

Windows · Mac · Android

Format

Online + in-lab

Modalities

behavioral

Administration

Duration: ≈ 40 min
Sessions: 1
Input: mouse
touchscreen
Audio: headphones required
Sensors: microphone
Adaptivity: fixed
Pause / resume: No
Practice phase: Yes
Offline-capable: Yes
Duration notes: Approximate total across the original six modules; each module can also be run individually. Not yet re-estimated for the three newer spoken-response modules (Decoding, Phoneme Deletion, Text Reading).
Hardware notes: Microphone is only required for the spoken-response modules (Decoding, Phoneme Deletion, Text Reading).

Provenance

Source: nccr-seed

Fetched: 2025-01-14

Last verified: 2026-07-17 — passed

Other tasks in this suite

CRAB

Barrage

Corsi Block-Tapping

Multiple Object Tracking

Rhyme Recognition

Vocabulary

Visual Orthography

Decoding

Phoneme Deletion

Text Reading

Quick Actions

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Additional Information

Created Date

2025-01-14

Last Modified

2026-07-17